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Ottoman BureaucracyPeople, places and careers in Ottoman public service
Dedicated toCarter V. Findley

Mehmet Nabi Bey

Born Year not recorded · Bosna · Dated entries 1888 to 1899 (AH 1306 to 1316)

Languages French, Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 9 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

Belgrade (Belgrad)Pazar (Atina)Paris
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 9 · Atina ve Tire

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

4 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Atina ve Tire

    Not yet located on the map: Atina ve Tire

    1. Başşehbender kançılaryası görevlisi (şehbender vekili)

      1,000 kuruş

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Atina ve Tire / Belgrade (Belgrad) / Pazar (Atina)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Atina ve Tire

    1. Atina ve Tire

      Başşehbender kançılaryası görevlisi (şehbender vekili)

      1,000 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Pazar (Atina)

      Sefaret üçüncü kâtibi

      1,500 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Pazar (Atina)

    1. Sefaret üçüncü kâtibi

      1,500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Pazar (Atina) / Petersburg / Bükreş

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Petersburg; Bükreş

    1. Pazar (Atina)

      Sefaret üçüncü kâtibi

      1,500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bükreş

      Sefaret ikinci kâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Bükreş

    Not yet located on the map: Bükreş

    1. Sefaret ikinci kâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

  6. 6

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Bükreş / Madrid

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Bükreş; Madrid

    1. Bükreş

      Sefaret ikinci kâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Madrid

      Sefaret ikinci kâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

  7. 7

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Madrid / Bükreş / Lahey

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Madrid; Bükreş; Lahey

    1. Madrid

      Sefaret ikinci kâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Lahey

      Sefaret başkâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Lahey / Paris

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Lahey

    1. Lahey

      Sefaret başkâtibi

      1,900 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Paris

      Sefaret başkâtibi

      3,000 kuruş

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 3 recorded years

    Paris

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sefaret başkâtibi

      3,000 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sefaret müsteşarı

      3,600 kuruş

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

3 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1888/89 (AH 1306)1,000400135 to 1,50080.3%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,500400130 to 1,50089.6%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,500400125 to 1,50088.6%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)2,000400140 to 1,60092.2%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,900400135 to 1,50092.7%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,900400140 to 1,40093.4%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)1,900400140 to 1,50092.8%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)3,000400140 to 1,50095.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)3,000450150 to 1,57596.3%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)2,700400140 to 1,42596.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)3,600400144 to 1,40097.6%1844

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Bükreş4
    1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)
  2. 1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
  3. 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  4. Atina ve Tire2
    1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
  5. Lahey2
    1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)
  6. Madrid2
    1893 to 1895 (AH 1311 to 1312)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Bükreş1,900
  2. Paris2,700 to 3,600
  3. Atina ve Tire1,000
  4. Lahey1,900 to 3,000
  5. Madrid1,900

Six places with the most recorded career years. Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)
  2. 1891 to 1895 (AH 1309 to 1312)
  3. 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  4. 1888 to 1890 (AH 1306 to 1307)
  5. 1898/99 (AH 1316)
  6. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Ulûm ve fünûn şehâdetnâmesi; edebiyat şehâdetnâmesi [1]

Schooling Soğukçeşme Rüşdiyesi; Mekteb-i Sultani (yatılı) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • French · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Bosna doğumlu memurlar

    MEHMET AKGÜN · 2017 · Pages 142, 143

Read the original source accounts · 24 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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